Martins music is both dissonant and harmonic at the same time.

Kámen (Stone) for string quartet by Ben McHugh
Played by the ConTempo String Quartet July 2010

Kámen (Stone) for string quartet - Ben McHugh

A piece for solo cello written for Yseult in August 2013 and performed in her final year recital last year (although I think this is a recording from a rehearsal beforehand). The piece was written as a scabby birthday present.

Rhapsodic and brooding throughout, the piece culminates in a lament played with one finger (very) high on the G-string over a pedal C, marked 'allow to gradually disintegrate into grit'. This sounds easy but it's extremely difficult - and brilliantly done by Yseult. Let's convince her to play it again!

Nachtmusik (peformed by Yseult Cooper Stockdale)

Performed by Raymond Deane in the Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin, January 29th 2015, as part of his featured concert of the AIC 'Irish Composers on Irish Music' series. 

More information on AIC (Association of Irish Composers):

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Miniature for piano (performed by Raymond Deane)

Commissioned and performed by Co-Orch Dublin on the 26th of February 2015. Soloist: Keith Sutherland.

Hiraeth (for Bassoon And Orchestra)

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Irish composer Ryan Molloy on his new album of piano works recorded by Alexander Bernstein. 

The album is available from CMC's site - https://www.cmc.ie/shop/ryan-molloy-innisfail 

Ryan Molloy on his new CD Innisfail

A last minute space became available in an Irish Composers Collective concert for solo harpsichord on 20/4/12 so I arranged and submitted this piece. It didn't take very much to alter the original composition to fit perfectly on harpsichord. David Adams performs excellently. Recorded by Dylan Rynhart.

Stave Off arranged for Harpsichord performed by David Adams

Martin Keary is a composer and visual designer based in London. He currently works as a consultant at Microsoft.

He studied a Masters degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland from 2013–15 , where he was awarded a first-class degree along with the Craig Armstrong prize and the Patron’s Fund Prize (Royal College of Music) for composition.

Martin has also been awarded the Claxica International prize for hispiece ‘Herostratic’ (for guitar and string trio) in 2015 and the West Cork Music Festival Prize for his string quartet in 2017. His visual music work is performed at various conferences and exhibitions around the UK, including ‘Seeing Sound’ (2016, Bath Spa University) and ‘SOUND/IMAGE’ (2015, 2017, University of Greenwich).

In May 2016, his large scale visual music piece, ‘NEW’ - for amplied chamber orchestra, electronics and synchronised animation — was performed by the Scottish ensemble ‘Red Note’ as part of the opening night of the PLUG festival in Glasgow. In November 2016, his piece ‘Beat Fatigue’ was performed by the renowned jazz musician Peter Brötzmann in Dublin.

Martin is currently working on the soundtrack to a short film called The Field by the award winning director Sandhya Suri - to be released in 2018 and a video game called ‘Thrust’ by Hayemaker Games. He lectures on the topic of visual music and can be contacted about this at martin.keary@gmail.com. He also has an active YouTube channel under the name ‘Tantacrul’, where he regularly posts videos on a variety of musical topics.

Martin Keary - CIMIM

The Irish Composers Collective was founded in 2003 and is committed to creating high-quality performances of music by its composer-members.

‘The ICC is a ready-made community of creators, performers, and listeners, and they are blazing a trail for 21st-century music in Ireland.’ - The Guardian

Martin Keary - CIMIM

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